PONQUE NEGRO COLOMBIANO

A special drunken cake that all the Colombian Pastelerias sell here, I like it because of the raisins and booze!

Ingredients

1 lbs butter

1 lbs de granulated sugar

1 lbs flour

12 eggs

3⁄4 lbs raisins

3⁄4 lbs dried plums

1⁄2 lbs almonds

4 teaspoon of baking powder

1 bottle of sweet red wine, (porto)

1 teaspoon of nutmeg

zest and juice of 1 orange,

zest of 2 lemons

1⁄2 teaspoon of vanilla,

1 cup of rum

1 cup molasses

PREPARACIÓN

Soak the raisins and dried plums in red wine for at least 2 ?4 days beat together sugar and butter in mixer till airy separately sift the flour with the baking powder and fold in little by little alternately with the eggs with out beating. Add the vanilla and flavorings rum and molasses beat till incorporated.

Drain the fruits, dust the fruits in flour and set aside, they are added in in the final mix. Add the wine to part of the mixture and fold into the complete batch. Finally add in the raisins and plums, toss in the zest and mix!

Pre heat oven to 350 F and place mixture into a prepared pan that is oiled and dusted with flour cook for 40-60 minutes and prick with a knife or tooth pick till it comes out clean.

You can sprinkle with wine or liquor like cane alcohol or rum to douse it if you like a drunken cake